Days like today are supremely enjoyable…warm and Spring-like before noon!
After two days of thunderstorms, this morning there was a medium fog and wet streets…the perfect time to photograph, as the colors are deeper.
In the parkway in front of the Emil Bach House, I found these dead Hosta…in strangely captivating, ‘returning-to-earth’ tones.
They brought to mind Miss Havisham and her wedding cake in Dickens’ “Great Expectations”.
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Here’s a closer look at this one; I prefer the composition here, but had to first let you view the whole:
Just next door is Cat’s Cradle Bed and Breakfast, where I found a good angle to capture raindrops!
About three blocks up, in an alleyway, was this HUGE puddle, reflecting a large tree. I rotated the image, because I felt it needed to be really looked at:
A very gray day, indeed…within an hour of returning, the temperature dropped and it began snowing–TWO seasons in one day!
Well…that’s Chicago!
Ah, Great Expectations – one of my favorites. yes, they are a bit reminiscent of that. Beautifully taken 1000 and well spotted.
And you, too, made the connection, smacked! Funny, when I walked by today, they were covered in a light snow…I could hardly tell they were there!
Great Expectations indeed…
Ah, thanks, Barbara! You’re the only person who made that connection!
Great photos and I think I could imagine a modern-day Miss Haversham holed up in that top room at the B & B. A mysterious guest, still in her dusty wedding dress, alone in the honeymoon suite…waiting.
I’ve not been up there, but I just might get the chance! Wouldn’t THAT be story??!!!